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CELEBRITY YOB: Jade Goody in Celebrity Big Brother is a perfect example of Labour’s “yob culture”. This Pandora’s box will take centuries to close again. — J Lees, Oxford.

CRUELTY ON A PLATE: Two brothers have been convicted of causing unnecessary suffering by allowing their dog to put on too much weight. We wonder whether the same charge should be applicable to the parents of dangerously obese children. — Dr Tom Solomon, Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Dr Rachel Kneen, Royal Liverpool Children’s NHS Trust (Alder Hey Hospital).

ABOLISHING SLAVERY: Your article National Trust to reveal properties built with profits from slavery (News, December 31) refers to Charlecote Park in Warwickshire as being “built partly on the proceeds of slavery, particularly from West Indian sugar”. This is wrong. Indeed, this spring, with permission of Sir Edmund Fairfax-Lucy, we will display extracts of the Lucy family diaries at the property that tell of the